Segment from Episode 3In May of 1877, hundreds of Ponca people - men, women and children - were forced to leave their Nebraska homeland and sent on a nightmare journey into Indian Territory. Four days into the journey a baby girl named White...

Nebraska Stories video television tv segment clip special 205 magazine New York dance company Lincoln Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium UNL University of Nebraska Lincoln Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts dance company Nebraskans...

This episode of Nebraska Stories focuses on a dance company challenging the notions of disability and performance, An Omaha Indian woman who championed Native American rights over a century ago, Senator Chuck Hagel's return trip to Vietnam, and a...

For Jesuit priest Don Doll, photography is more than a hobby. When he lived on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Father Doll developed deep friendships with the Lakota People. In this story, we revisit a 1988 documentary from the NET...

While working on NETs new documentary, 'Standing Bear's Footsteps', Associate Producer Princella Parker discovered the story of Susette La Flesche, also known as Bright Eyes. The daughter of Omaha Indian Chief Iron Eye, La Flesche was a highly...

Written in collaboration with Lakota academicians and tribal historians and after years of study and discussion with tribal elders, this monograph is an especially good example of the crucially important role tribal colleges are playing in cultural...

A new dictionary of the Lakota language just hit the bookshelves. The dictionary's editors hope the twenty thousand words and definitions will help keep the native Sioux language alive. South Dakota Public Radio's Charles Michael Ray reports.

'Learning White Man's Ways.' Description: Nebraska Farmer. January 6, 1917. Note: The Genoa, Nebraska, Indian School, operated between 1884 and 1934. One of its purposes was to teach American Indian students how to farm and raise livestock.

A man with a gray beard and mustache is sitting cross-legged in front of a wood planked wall. The man is wearing a dark hat, suspenders, a light-colored shirt with pinstripes, and dark pinstriped pants. He has shoes with laces and light-colored...